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    <a href="http://foley-fisher.com">Zoltan Foley-Fisher</a> | <a href="http://legacyweb.triumf.ca/people/oram/louise/index.html">Louise Oram</a>
    
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<p><img class="right_float" src="images/openid.png" alt="Alt"/>OpenID is a standard for authenticating people on websites. People find OpenID is an easy way to authenticate since they reuse login credentials. Web site designers also like OpenID because it simplifies user account management.
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<p>When you login to a site with OpenID, such as a site like LiveJournal, you enter an OpenID instead of a username and password. The site, known as the "relying party", contacts your OpenID provider. Your OpenID provider immediately asks you to confirm the login request with a password. After you confirm the request, the relying party, in this case LiveJournal, is notified and you are logged in!</p>

    <p><em>Graphical Passwords</em> is a collection of Javascript User Interface (UI) controls for providing graphical password confirmation to your OpenID provider. With these controls you can login to any OpenID relying party with a unique series of choices using a computer mouse, instead of a password of letters and digits.</p>
    
    <p><a href="session">Try it out!</a></p>

    
<p><em>Graphical Passwords</em> is available from Google Code at <a href="http://graphical-passwords.googlecode.com/">http://graphical-passwords.googlecode.com/</a></p>


    <h3>Last updated: November 2009</h3>


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